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Trump goes on a Twitter tirade against Romney over tax 'bombshell' remark

By ELIZA COLLINS

02/25/2016 12:46 PM EST

Donald Trump is not taking lightly Mitt Romney’s suggestion that he is hiding something in his tax returns.

The real estate mogul has tweeted a dozen times since Romney phoned into Fox News on Wednesday afternoon and said the top three presidential candidates should release their tax returns and cautioned that Trump’s may contain a “bombshell."

“We’re gonna select our nominee. We really ought to see from all three of these fellas what their taxes look like to see if there’s an issue there,” Romney said. “I think in Donald Trump’s case, it’s likely to be a bombshell.”

Romney was pressured into releasing his own taxes when he was the Republican nominee in 2012 — and the release revealed his tax rate was lower than most Americans.

Trump said recently he would release his own returns within "three, four months," but he's made clear that he's not going to just give in to Romney's demands:

During the White House press briefing Thursday, press secretary Josh Earnest said that Romney "didn’t seem too happy when somebody said that about his tax returns, as I recall."

"I think the American people have the expectation that that’s what the candidates should do," Earnest said about candidates releasing their returns, but he added that he wasn't trying to issue a challenge.